Given here are four sentences. The first sentence is in the correct order, while the rest of the sentences are jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order.

A. The Gita has always been cherished by many Hindus for its spiritual guidance, 

B. but it achieved new prominence in the 19th century when the British in India lauded it as the Hindu equivalent of 

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—considered it to be the pivotal Hindu text.

D. the New Testament and when American philosophers—particularly the New England Transcendentalists